{"id":205,"date":"2008-07-16T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-07-16T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T17:18:19","slug":"an-aside-final-fantasy-xiii-coming-to-xbox360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/videogames\/an-aside-final-fantasy-xiii-coming-to-xbox360\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Final Fantasy XIII Coming to Xbox360"},"content":{"rendered":"

E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), much maligned in the past few years, has been home to many of the major bombshell announcements to rock the videogame industry in the last several years, and you can add another one to the list.<\/p>\n

At the end of an admittedly otherwise timid press conference, Microsoft brought out a fellow named Yoichi Wada, the current president of Japanese developer Square Enix<\/strong> to deliver a big ‘Fuck You’ to Sony. The announcement?<\/p>\n

Final Fantasy XIII<\/strong>, one of Sony’s biggest weapons in the console war, is going multi-platform.<\/p>\n\"A\n

Via 1UP<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“We’re ready to start developing FFXIII for 360,” said Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto. “First, we will complete the game for PS3 in Japan, then begin localization for America and Europe while developing the 360 version simultaneously. The PS3 and 360 versions will be released at the same time outside of Japan — although, due to language and other conditions, the game may not be released simultaneously across territories.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\"The\n

James Mielke, of 1UP, has a great interview with Yoshinori Kitase, the producer of Final Fantasy XIII<\/strong>, HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As an Xbox360<\/strong> owner still struggling to find reasons to buy a Playstation 3<\/strong>, I have one less reason to buy Sony’s console. This marks the first time since Final Fantasy VI<\/strong> that a mainline Final Fantasy<\/strong> game will release somewhere other than a Sony console (besides the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI<\/strong>), and is the first<\/em> time that one will appear on multiple platforms at launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), much maligned in the past few years, has been home to many of the major bombshell announcements to rock the videogame industry in the last several years, and you can add another one to the list. At the end of an admittedly otherwise timid press conference, Microsoft brought out a fellow… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n